In which of the following pairs of antitrust cases did the firms prevail against the antitrust charges leveled against them?
A) The Alcoa case and the Microsoft case.
B) The U.S.Steel case and the Alcoa case.
C) The DuPont cellophane case and the U.S.Steel case.
D) The U.S.Steel case and the Microsoft case.

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In the DuPont cellophane case (U.S. v. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., 1956) and the U.S. Steel case (United States v. United States Steel Corp., 1920), the firms prevailed against the antitrust charges. In the DuPont case, the court ruled that DuPont did not have monopoly power in the relevant market of "flexible packaging materials," despite its dominance in the cellophane market. In the U.S. Steel case, the Supreme Court ruled that U.S. Steel was not guilty of monopolizing the steel industry, largely because the company did not engage in unreasonable trade restraints.

In Which of the Following Pairs of Antitrust Cases Did